The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1921, Page 26

[a Fe a tnay ‘i bon 38 ‘) Et eile shai 2 my THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1 because having guaranteed earnings to the roads | ae oe a they will be called upon to foot a bill amounting Gag Rul e i O. 184 1 { entiises, By john Cassel | to rhreesquarters of a billion dollars. 8, 1921. - The Statesmen "i lth bbc bal RH saben 2D re a of the Bible Sided comets Rte fersese. Where there ls so much smoke there must ms TS ‘Somborne, ee by eat Pane han Nee rock ™* | some fire, The machinists, of whom 30,000 are nF, Lad hairs 68 Pare bee said to have been thrown out of work by the prac- PULATEER sr. Gooretary, 63 Fark Row. tise of railroad managers In turning repair work ‘MEMBER OF THE AssOCIAMD rases, over to outside (but affillated) concerns, are not oe Leal Free i eatery etn sn edust tsar par, tie only ones who see. evidences of an Intent to A die tee Neel news vebtiched barca, cripple if not to destroy the’ unions, We've had enough rumor, Let's have the facts. ages with the light that is as pure it ie brifliant. Gamaliel was the first of the rabbang (rabban being the form of the title rabbi) and along with Hillel as one of t! iNustrious men in Hebrew histo: H was the President of the Sanhe: under two or three Emperors, and b intellectual brilliancy, pet ment and unimpeachable integrity character commanded the reapeat STILL A PROBLEM FOR SOME. N UNCERTAIN number of New Yorkers—we F make no guess how many—will be Immense- GOVERNMENT BY LOBBY. ly cheered about the housing problem by the as- ENATOR KBNYON, bruised with bumping into surance of Douglas Elliman of Douglas Elliman & lobbyists whichever way he turns, and stung Co, that “any man who can pay more than $3,500 | to speech by the pestiferousness of a group seeking a year for an apartment need re worry—he can | shecial favors in connection with the Muscle Shoals % pte gdh od York: nitrate enterprise, says: ut, r, Elliman: “The man who formerly paid $1400 or “I do not know whe his lobbying busi- and good man, aa told in Acte—a : story that is able to provide the eae ene ness is going to stop, * * * It is reach ae vetiar gn © the country. ‘There ts sotaind ing @ point nowadays where Washington ls pte eigipreseaye Le age im town for him unless he crowds his family / wwarming with lobbies of every kind and would seem, the very foundations tuto one or two rooms. , Things are beyond description. You cannot go to your office, his reach. vl. 22 ying pnd per im ths ies bays merly cost cane ater where, without having some of these lobby- {sta talking to you about bills in Congress.” Tih nny dla Nation - whe On the day the Sixty-sixth Congress convened ‘AS to the unfortunate man who can't pay even | in final session The World published a partial list $1,500 to keep a roof over his head, we assume | of lobbies operating in Washington—a calumn long. there are so few of him in New York that it doesn’t A few among the many listed were the Anti- miaiter what, becomes of him. Saloon League, the Intemational Reform Bureau . As Mr. Elliman says, “There are no moderate whose head catts Himeett, a Christian tobbyistl” rentals for livable apartments in town but plenty ( ist") of livable apartments at high rentals.” the American Fara ureau Federation, the Ameri- All this seems very simple and convincing, but | ca. Pfotective Tariff League, the Ship Subsidy We can't help suspecting there is still a housing | Lobby and the National League of Women Voters. problem somewhere in the City of New York. The lowa Senator is not the only statesman in . ate ie npr en ihe that . bey Pet- | open rebellion against-a growing evil which’ has |, r to provide a larger supply of ¢ pide idl alas 10 the Geils ti dvntan beg the proporucnls of a: ihamace, the city who cannot afford to pay every dollar they he epkiemmic of lobbying 1 ‘spreaiting lke a earn fot rent. plague. Ex-legislators, hanging out their shingles + _, Differing somewhat from Mr. Elliman’s view of | In, the Capital City as attorneys at law, are tie housing, situation, Justice Jacob S. Strahl, sit- | “carriers” of lobbying germs that threaten the well- ting in the Sixth District Municipal Court in Brook, | being of our more-or-less democratic Government. Typ, sald yesterday: It has reached such a pass that a member of Con- * “The money-lending institutions of this shaken up. by order of the High Priest. In a way that some believed to be miracy- lous they escaped from prison and forthwith began preaching again, The | Captain of the temple and the chief priests ordered them to be taken before the ‘Council, where they were forbidden to continue their propa- ganda, But paying no attention to the order, the Apostles broke forth again in their praise of Christ, urging all present to turn to Him for salva- tion. This brought on a riot, @ad many began clamoring for the death of the evangelists, when something hap- pened that no one was looking for. “There stood up one in the Council, a Pharisee named Gamaltel, a doctor of the law, had in honor of all of people, and commanded to put the men forth @ little while. And he said unto them, ‘Ye men of Istael, take heed ‘to yourselves as touching these ¢ men, as to what ye are.ubout to do. For before these days rose up Theu- das, giving himself out to be some- body, to whom @ number ‘of men, ; about 400, joined themselves who was city could, if they would, relleve the hous- gress hardly knows “when he! is being “lobbied.” slain, and all, as many as obeyed ing shortage almost immediately. ‘Their de- Social lobbyists amply ‘supplied with funds are hima ware aievareed and came 8° oe kanal erat cd eaat ere lavish entertainers at dinners, dances and balls. |of Galilee in the days of the enrol- is preventing the erection many 4 - | . ment houses in this city.” Not all legislative agents are corrupt, and not all ment, and drew away some of tbe people after him; he also perished, and as many as obeyed him were scattered abroad. And now, I say This sounds like a more hopeful lead than Mr. |. lesislators are corruptible. It isn’t necessarily a Elliman’s scheme of sending every family that | question of bribery. j ater abn “An can’; pay more rent than it formerly paid into the ‘The real question which is gradually rising to the and let them alone; for if this counsel country. surface is whether a kind of Third Chamber is to CE ie one eel Justice Strahl is not the only authority for the ¢ will not able to overthrow u ee SN a ee att or ip. | {ast a8 an extraconstitutioal body ina regon [From Evening World Readers hay Je, : . lest haply ye be found even to be, |, fight it God."* r i Sea! od" UNCOMMON SENSE | sich SS & ort ncoln' a And if s0, should it not be legitimatized and re- What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one By John Blak speecd, at Gettysburg, yeulbow slo- This ts one of the fields to which the proposed dvd tochlciion| slways.wa th > WSeeret | tat glver you the worth of a thousand rords in a coupie of hundred? ON eae quent in ite truth 7 broadening of the Lockwood committee’s powers ps basi ik te “ e le open et There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying (cpr, ee wie Hire oeedioin a AC 8 fo. would extend its inquiry. ipkwnacy” in way of clandestine deals between ‘to aay much in a few words. Take time to be brief. BOOKS A . them unless you can successfully i Get the empowering resolution out of the Senate | special interests that want grants, franchises, privi- The world is interesting because there are #0 many peo- Se Sent re Tice big aul cena . ie Finance Committee at Albany and start the Lock- | leges and exemptions, and. Congressmen who have “Trae Statement.” nied, but antagonists like yourself 3 ple in it. Books are interesting because they are mainly |vut” like Theudas and Judas of Galt- ti . ‘To the Editar of The Brening World: must be patient - ‘ Jee, who thought they were “some- ° :- S, ‘ 7 “ ” iv es 5 / nations that abide in the archives of Foreign |“The Fruits." ts the most togica! in the law than ommunities ot 5,000 184 people. ee Men of Israel! be sensible, be tolgr- oe a < } 7 y are not, . . FORGOTTEN BANK ACCOUNTS. tate conditions woted in that abortive|Both “are equally “Americans and And whether you are 'to be just one of the crowd or $| can’ take care of iteclf, anfoy ; ; Before very long we must_make up our minds |social experiment misnamea Pronibi-|amenable to the same Federal laws, $ somebody of importance and distinction depends upon how §| falsehood cuts Its own throat ij on) T TOOK thirty columns of close-set agate type | whether’ this is to be a Government by duly elected | tion 1 have yet read. wiealvatakon years, but claim no moral superiority ;$ much you know of pecple and how well you ean impress ‘An open field und « fair 4S ee \ i ih ve <6 bom a . 5 all that truth asks, a in The World yesterday to print the advertise- | and responsible representatives of the people or a Poet id , : ASPs ee ankle (Reese kat iwedijo. the con. (7 them with your value to them that is at esis, Nyrod \ is what every real lover o ment of 25,000 forgotten accounts in savings banks, | Government by lobby, should be willing to agree to. trust companies and private banks of this State, ue a nation of oriminals, It generates | clusion that New York is a hothed of You can find out about people, of course, in books—a greed, lust and noise, Deny It If you reat deal about them. If you read the right books you will profound contempt for the law, or] fan. "you whine over pronibition iike|$ © ‘A f 7 f the observations of people by the shrewdest ing to bear .all aides needs to be th@® for the monumental hypocrisy |a whipped cur, ‘Take your medicine |} Set the results o tched. He has someth! 8 Once every five years the State Banking Depart- Gov. Miller sends a special message to the | {P3t parades under the name of|tike aman and stop your howling In| and best minds. Weere ie te praying, pot tor rath ” qs thent is required by law to publish a list of such Legislature calling attention tq “the open and ‘prohibition Laws." the wildernon. a also point out _ But you cannot learn all you need to know {fm books. $| but for something that te differen accounts. notorious violation” of the Volstead law and Tt has created and emphasized «| ¢ Ou that the Wilson-Cox ticket was|$ Keep your eyes open and study people for yourself. . bien Gmeatt ee Seon ' would t6 ‘Ae e bt coincidently Police Commissioner Enright slams class consciousness that prior to its" defeated on Nov, 2 by Senator Har- Watch them, big and little, important and unimportant. }| Goa that we had 10,000 like theo with Most of these dormant deposits are, no doubt, ace 1A premature birth was e! ding, and it is about time you cease ind hat they think what their taste is, how their us to-day to help hold us steady and * 4 ad seal ; wn & M, lid on cafes and cabarets in this America. aon your mud-siinging at our next Preai-|$ Find out what they think or ?. keep us sweet and gational amid the A relatively small. © Death, change of residence or city, . Ita poison seeps: into and throug! dent. I might suggest that you|$ minds operate. wl welter of Impulse ea unreason that a deliberate concealment rather than forgetfulness Police Headquarters would itke to have tt ap- [tO 90 Sh nan oas of our inetitu- Change the title of your paper from Go to gatherings where thousands of people are’ congre- 3] besets us! 4 ; may explain many of them. pear that it bas linked arms with the Governor ons, sigce the contempt It @mgen- seem Rona: te Pe ot renar Es 2 }3 gated. Watch them and lites to them, io i ' ders for @self may readily sp! - ople as you can, but listen more than ———SS— Yet who can say how many poor people may | '" & campaign for law and righteousness. ontempt for all Iaws. {New York, Jan, 11, 1981, 7 [eR EN, 5 ‘ fad welocene fellét ‘in the sudden disco ‘ If Gov. Miller were to write a message about ‘The American people have not and Jan, 11, 1921. you talk. Our National ws I t whlch the iets hold-ups and highwaymen in the streets-of New yell Bae Sovene aD een bee Real Estate Board and City Don’t think because they lack money or fine clothes < to state wi Dn 80} Coll o recollection of small sums to “y can prove York City maybe Police Commissioner Enright | tmake ita vital isaule In polltlos, CON 7, 4.5 waiter of The Benin Wold: tha} Shey. ase ‘valnkereehing.. here. someth ie ere Monuments i thoy are entitled? Would suddenly discover that instead of being a | signing it to the oblivion it deservee. | “noterring to articles in several|$ in every one. There is something lacking in the man who is i ee oe a Superintendent McLaughlin of the State Banking “mere flurry,” crime conditions hereabout are Meanwhile we admire ving light on newspapers on Jan, 7 and later, stat-|$ easily bored in company. He either has a sense of superior- _— and con y . Saaly, littl t his faculties of {|PINNACLES NATIONAL MONU- i at Department says that “poor people do not forget the worst ever. the most niniater aapect Its effects. ing it to be the purpose of the Real ity, which makes ee of little account, or faculties sey a one (Note: The Governor of the State of New “Contempt for the Law, A vp. Estate Board of New York and other observation need sharpening.” N the early Cailfo i large sums of money and the well-to-do won't. York can remove the Poltos Commissioner of | Tut inset: san ae organiations to ask for withdrawal Writers must know people, or they cannot write about I the tee, possi Male “= i - Oa the other hand, isn’t.it true that poor people the City of New York “when the public intereats itidetink daar’ of Support by the city for the College|$ them, Executives must know them, or they cannot under- means of ,trenaportiag bullies i oe are more likely than the rich to lose track of small 80 require." polkuapitteat re estes Ord Net the City of New York and Hunter) $ gtand thelr management. Ae a 3 4. }|*tom the mining camps bandttry was long to them—perhaps through sreater Your editorial in yesterduy’s Eve- , College: : This is a world of seas and land and mountains an @ profitable venture, One of the fav- | HEME Seger bth & yen © ekg atte mom ning Word ented "The Fruita” waa’, Phe Ren Fetate Board bas adorted|{ animals, but itis mostly a world of people. And the most |orte hiding pacts af thew guntemen ) they do mot keep by them? : % TWICE OVERS. to me one of the most nauseating (\\4: Other organizations could have |% successful men and women are those who deyote the most $/ of the was the oe'et Gn outbursts that I have ever read. | oni Twenty-five thousand forgotten bank accounts “e wi we want in this country is just a | won't it ever dawn upon you that suggest at feast a fair percentage of pleasant sur- rred in such a plan, i most thought to the study of their fellow Clko tact that tome organisations} Hise, and the 6 i] “ i bh an beings. i hut have, at the request of the Board, a ‘ renewal of good old-fashioned American |Vronivition is here to stay and that Tt “discuas a programme for stm: Benito County. Here among these spearlike formations, rising from 600 to 1,000 feet from the canyon floor, fe from wareuit, A it is now a part of the supreme law plifying ,clty government, but this |* 4 they were sai t ) prises for persons to whom they may mean most. sanily and common sense. We must gel away from | or the land? Those who by innuendo; conferente has met only once su far, . Words F he Wi Shas een aes acres, gi in- i and subtle suggestions encourage|and has gone no further than to|created by the Democrats to prevent or rom the ise “| cludes the aces, was aside as ———$+,——_ the idea that we can legislate people into the kingdom Mtolations of any law (whether it [touch the surface of a problem recog- | Faniog and the banks were scattered Mean eer ee national monument Ia 1886: They NG THE ‘ of Heaven.”—Dr. William T. Manning. sets. with your approval oF not) ee ee ea Oe eee ont: ag |over the country where they would be en string | Sry ‘calles. ‘Their vides he ge eee ONS. mee! | The meeting to which these articles ni ast running through the pearl chain ha’ f TT LAUCK i sr eee are menaces to the peaceful progress) refer is one of a number of meetings |close to any trouble that slg it alee sire eae ee cipitous that many of them cannot be R, W. JETT LA is a painstaking econo- of Governmental functions. held almost daily at this office, and it |and do the most good quickly. They) of al jues.—Bishop Hall. scaled. . forme 9 P h ° "e ‘ by the bases of the r vary in ‘ 667 T has been . eruite” which you enumerate |is not the practice of the Real Estate be like fire engines wisely dis " ‘ ‘ooks, M mist who for a number of years has been the oain but futile hope of misguided in Ge irat paragraph of the editorial Board of New York to five our the bering papal a eee 8 e Kessel ie size, ithe Beat known of ¢ thuwo ouves 4 i jalizing i ie many i but those which you| results of meetings of this kind, es- . . » Hall, studying labor conditions and specializing in labor people for years to be able to legislate i question ure, Pilaving ripened’ in| pecially when they affect the policy| A the twelve regional banks have] (nes it. South, about Yop feet square, with a calling statistics. He was formerly Secretary of the War morals into a community.” —Goo. Edwards of New |your own brain. The reports of|of the Board, until definite and of-|done so well, and they seem not to ‘ thirty. Seek, Rai. Several of thay . i fird & Coler and Dr. Mortimer Jones | lea} action Is taken. lack money-making qualities, would Heat and animosity may | immense rook spires are wonderfully Labor Board. | Jersey. Bifcings County Hospital do not} As some of the organizations re- good business sense to in-| sharpen the wits; they never le over from the for: ' y rred to in th tll {t not be topple ce of the Ee Renee. tn. Wena of the 400,000. members Noir make thelr views "unanimeur alny | euenia of the Real Eatate Board amt {crease thelr number, say, to fifty, one| strengthen the understanding, | wind. The visitor Is awed by the of the International Association of Machinists, just ria cms UNISM in Russia is robberism; it |knows that conditions generally are |some mentioned were not present and |for eagh Stats, one for Alasia and) guide the fudoment nor improve ACY nomen caves ok Cae ‘ ‘: ol u ‘se. The crime/all have erroneously been made to|ona for Haw: a . ia , filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission, tolerates imprisonment, persecution and exe- Rreclecly Uaitively not due to Pro-|appear as indorsiag a plan’ which |elty would Increase fhe number of ihe, Death, denen. ! raceah conenees, We Gas oendily will therefore recelve the consideration it deserves. | ution without trial; it has brought Russia stareation, \iPtohetn' of ail big: ware, due te. ask that you give Publicity to" chis one for each ward clove at band for! 4, 1 4) 4 good action by ateaith, | abzTinen s# ® retreat for highway. ate ii ; . e r Hletter? nd every incipient conflagration. . The petition, which requests an immediate in- | disease and’ death.” Max Schwarts, An American \Stuetal were sct a"Sounger ce: EAT HSTATE BOARD OF New|‘PAad #0 the banks would be closer|* and have dt found out by acot- | | Springs of excollent drinting water quiry Into the facts, charges that the railroads of J ment has been educated in the use| YORK, by RICHARD 0, GHIT- |etill to the people by having More) gent.—c, Lamb, are outta renin © wkettoe: Roane the country are conducting an insidious attack on Socialist who Weed in Russia twenty years. of Sirsa Aad the Appiiontion’ of) TIGR, “mpeguttve eeciyeery manag ple of each State. Politeness.As the outward gar. | game, which 1s protected by speg the unlons, which, it Is claimed, they are deter. ik VRC celia nivercheteleamell lOc oma ie Poop ltsing the Federal Reserve! ment of good will; it i reat kind- ' j , ; - iamne pinnacies are not ensily ao- rtain Republicans Danke le with looting: mid it ia| ness Kindly expressed—L, M. | cessible and can only be reached by people wanted it, in the bottom of mined to destroy, “e Te bhonast enforcement of the lain may lead |TOre,2* Bor enes tHe mnlonity of the rivate conveyances, .The ny it : hearts. It Was passed and put To the Editor of The Bren synomeret among the faithful ones,| Notkin, priv reranoe carne bes “ 5 movemen i @ long time to “G; Sentrol” ‘wea % pany . fo aeknowledee jin Ban Ben ‘unty. s fre vitally Interested = ei spcciey of it een only breed disorder and create contempt for Make univernally operative. That t snulied BSait Sansesi Sw ih ina. ge ewln #00, ea, about July | who het sowrane e seimatoeten jis Man ees vy 5, ren on wat ¢ railroad Industry, of fom, Goo. Miller of New York Tits af ALE the people cannot be de. ‘The Federal Rawerve System was Pye Kors Oy, Jap 3 Hy, apaty San v. Battles, oo. aan Poon wel wont wala N a Y ‘ ' ‘4 a 1 stg \ ays if * rte Hed cmetep ete ee ei iiciciacuatill * oi we is Te eS